last week a group of men using collision a cough and smoke bomb stole ten million euros worth of cash and gold from a van and italy also in the past week several hundred tons of gold were stolen from investment portfolios using a whole lot of paper collision of cost and just a little bit of innuendo innuendo face say however yes max there was a fast of some golden cash in italy of course it was on its way to switzerland but in the markets the innuendo was of course that ben bernanke he was going to stop his quantitative easing and also cyprus what was about cyprus here's a quote from dennis gartman in his latest newsletter he said if cyprus is forced to sell gold then portugal shall be too otherwise the discrimination against cyprus shall be wholly unwarranted and utterly unfair and if portugal is forced to sell then how can italy avoid the same fate or greece for that matter in you when face and you end up well yes ben bernanke and the rumor and the scuttlebutt is that they

may end quantitative easing they may end this process of printing money and buying bonds eating their own vomit as it were but that is in possibility there is no exit strategy ben bernanke he will never and quantitative easing this will all end in a massive currency devaluations against gold everyone knows that who has a lot of money the people with the most money know this that's why they were buying lots of the gold as it was being coughed up puked up at the bottom well for every seller there is indeed a buyer so somebody was buying big time during these record sell offs. but it was also says that all these european nations are going to capitulate somehow people think that italy is going to hand over two and a half thousand tons of gold. but of course as soon as this was going on as well as every. they saying well gee cyprus is going to hand over its goal now it's going to

hand over its four hundred million euros worth of gold which was worth three hundred thirty million euros worth of gold by monday a few days later so of course you can have to give up more and more and more and at the same time the bailout costs are going up so a tweet from c.m.d. see the rescue of cyprus has just increased by another six to seven billion euro steinbrück tells c.n.n. b.b.c. world well it's interesting that gold is a factor in these bailouts because as the gold price moves around it changes the calculus on the i.m.f. and these other big global banks their ability to determine what i'm number of dollars and yann and euros they need to print to simulate this so-called bailout which is nothing more than a modern version of occupation it's a colonization of cyprus they call it is a sion of europe by central bankers but the point is this gold is now being used as a defacto global gold standard right now gold is what we're already back on to gold

back standard the daily price based on paper manipulation that's not the big story the big story is that the central bankers now have to calculate every single day the price of gold in the figuration how to take over these countries and impose their imperial mandate and it's already broken spear well you're also learning a very valuable lesson as an investor because they're not interested in the dollar value of the yen value or the euro value of the gold what they want primarily is ounces they want to accumulate ounces and in the case of central banks tons whether that tons of cyprus gold is going to be transferred to frankfurt or new york tons of the accumulation is of many tons as possible from italy from portugal because what's going to happen is we have the end of one empire and the shifting of power elsewhere some say china but it's certainly shifting east and you want to have the most tonnes not the most euro's worth of gold you want the most tons of gold right well look at the dynamic here on. one side of the paper bugs you've got joe

wiesenthal of business insider you've got barry ritholtz over at reynolds dot com who are talking about the end of the bull market in gold ok they're on one side of the equation here is the other side of the equation a billion rabbit indian people almost stampeding down the gold shop to buy more outs of gold i have got my money on the billion indians well let's look at what else is happening as european nations and the u.s. and all these debt bombs explode wealth tax to pay for e.u. bailouts wealthy households would face new taxes on property and other assets under german plans to prop up the struggling euro zone so senior advisers to chancellor angela merkel these are called the five wise man you might call them the five wise guys as we would call them here they have come up with a new plan and they think that because the rich can just transfer their cash anywhere they decided they said to help everybody of course is they're going to go after assets that can't be moved like property something we've talked about here is

that's one very huge downside to property is it's a sitting duck there you can't hide your mansion on the coaches or they just take it they tax it so this is what they plan on doing instead of taxing cash european union government should in future target property and other less mobile assets for example over the next ten years the rich should give up a portion of their assets professor both anger said this is professor peter both finger one of the five wise guys and i think the key word in that statement is mobile this is why the sale of mobile homes skyrocketed across europe if merkel shows up to take your house just during the game driveway. let's go to check of the market oh intermittent because of all of that let's go to poland builder of poland wow this sounds remarkably similar to something that happened a while ago well anyway getting back to assets in the form of real estate are now vulnerable as we've been saying all along so they've got. major threats to real

estate number one is confiscation and it's interesting that germany is now playing to type by becoming very belligerent in their confiscation of wealth across the euro zone home i wonder when that ever happened again so some analysts say the reason why they're bringing this up is and in particular they mentioned spain and they're all these four hundred thousand brits for example own homes in spain and they're targeting they think that spain remember they took a huge bailout to rescue the banks now they think they're going to need another bailout to rescue the government so in order to pay these bailout debts they're saying they're going to tax all those properties we don't know how much all of the major institutions at the i.m.f. and the world bank that are orchestrating the bailouts of these individual countries let's keep in mind they themselves are bankrupt they themselves have to go borrow money from themselves essentially in accounting fraud to make it look as though they're solvent but in fact they are bankrupt and so you do have this

massive implosion happening across the world in all markets and meanwhile the global g.d.p. has been revised downwards again and again and again there is no growth you know the other thing that one has to look at when you see the sell off in gold you have to wonder ok. is it all really getting better is a do we not need gold is ben bernanke he our is the bank of japan are all these guys like in control of everything x. soros advisor says jason massive easing to back fire the bank of japan's huge bet by boosting quantitative easing won't turn the economy around in this instead sending the nation toward the fall. of maki former adviser to billionaire investor george soros so you know the bank of japan is now doubling their monthly debt purchases to seven point five trillion yen which is seventy six billion dollars almost the same as the u.s. federal reserve on a much. larger economy so he's saying that this bond issuance is going to cause it

could lead to hyperinflation he said because they're also seeking to expand their monetary base to two hundred seventy trillion dollars well japan is the place to borrow money at zero percent interest to speculate in all these other markets around the world that's the role it's played for twenty five thirty years now japan has been the go to country to borrow money at zero percent to feel all kinds of interest rate arbitrage scams and all kinds of leverage leverage hyper leveraged derivative scams and and so they're going to continue to play that role it is acting as a black hole of debt sucking the global economy into that debt including the i.m.f. well here is george soros is former advisor to keshi future maki he likens it essentially to kamikaze so by the way it was two hundred seventy trillion yen that they seek to expand their monetary base not two hundred seventy trillion dollars though i'm sure they would love that marquee says about corrado the new head of the

bank of japan he says carruthers q.e. announcement is declaring double suicide with the government the b.o.j. will have to share the country's fate and default together there is no escape he says for a market crash in the future well the japanese monetary policy is a noble form of suicide just like in some other cultures and religions they have suicide bombers they they believe this is a noble form of suicide in japan they're noble suicide is to commit monetary harry carey and so they're going to make a religious statement it's become a religious statement for them to commit suicide on behalf of american consumers so food democracy says that they're going to have a market crash because of all the debt you can't have that sort of debt he says and stay solvent how much debt japan's outstanding government bonds bills and borrowings increase a record nine hundred ninety seven point two trillion yen at the end of two thousand and twelve so just at a quadrillion. yes you know quadrillion and well this goes back to my point that

there is no exit strategy from any of these programs bench only when there is this collapse and they're going to have to as a result of this currency war they're going to have to really calibrate all the global currencies again like a bretton woods type agreement and against gold so gold is going to be the benchmark against or against all these currencies as it has been for thousands of years and the indians know this and the smart money knows this now the international monetary fund you know they were out this week they downgraded global g.d.p. growth for japan in this article they say that they estimate the liabilities will grow to two hundred forty five percent of the nation's economic output this year expanding to a sixth straight year. he says about this things may look rosy for now us stocks rise but should we see hyperinflation j g b s we'll see a huge selloff leading to a stock market crash so you know j g b's the japanese government bonds they've often had to shut down because there's so much volatility and in the day so this is

a unique thing going on in the world and despite this goal the selling off so we do see that the wild waves of friction and chaos of a new currency regime i've mentioned that before we have a shifting balance of power around the world and this is part of the chaos is part of it but last week the price of gold priced in yen had a forty year high and not a lot of people were aware of this it was this moment when the central bankers essential pulled out all the stops and decided to allow japan and other countries to print now a quadrillion yen or trillion dollars in euros and to sell into the market these naked contracts that are essentially counterfeit contracts but it was that that was the signal to them when gold hit forty year high and yen that was their signal to attack the gold market with hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars with the paper contracts and of course that just means that the indebtedness of the world just increased substantially that means that the central bank's going to print more money the. means that there the exit strategy is now way way way into the future

it's an infinity into the future there is no exit strategy and in the joke is that bernanke you on a rumor that he might end quantitative easing bernanke you will never end quantitative easing it's impossible all it's like the sun coming up in the west never ever going to happen he says it purely to manipulate prices says you never thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you max stay tuned for the second half oh whole lot more. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit

stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but what we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more patrie down to the bottom line there is still a lot of snow out here a good place for snowball fight. piece and it is kind of a pretty incredible day there and even record snowfall throughout much of it might still be slog through drugs listens to the emergency vehicles are exceptions.

to. you. to. welcome back to the kaiser report time out of turn to ed harris and have credit write downs dot com ed welcome back to the kaiser report good to talk to you max you are the macro the macro man in washington we come to you for the big macro picture you tweeted out recently the question why are germans poor question marks are they poor question mark and if so why tell us about this you

know there's a study that came out on household finances of be released of all the euro nations spain italy germany and so forth the interesting bit was that the median wealth actually mean wealth in spain and it a loop was higher than it is in germany so you're asking yourself why is it that the germans are really doubt the spanish and italians when in fact there's a lot of wealth there and the reason really is the way the wealth is distributed but there for reasons of how schools in germany are relatively poor one is that none of their public pensions are counted as part of their assets they don't really have a lot of private pensions what a second. reason is that. in germany they're very house poor only forty four percent of germans actually own a house whereas it's more like seventy or eighty percent in places like italy and spain in addition of the east west divide i mean really if you look at the pro

capita income in eastern germany versus western germany is a huge gulf still even twenty years later and then when you add in the fact that the fertility rate in germany is very low it's lowest in the world along with italy injure and japan rate there that gives you a sense that household the number of members per hour school is the lowest in the e.u. that's a huge factor in terms of when you think about well prout's will and the final thing is that east versus west germany is really still today two different countries because the pro capita income in eastern germany is much lower than it is in western germany at deftly pulls the number down so i think those are really big . things in terms of why there's less wealth in germany in the household sector than you might think it would be right i saw the report that the households and italy and spain were worth more than germans and this set off a firestorm and in the media and but you know it's not really an apples to apples

comparison as you are describing there the you have a lot of worth tied up in real estate these countries but that real estate is now crashing plus you have social cohesion in these countries is falling apart unemployment is skyrocketing whereas you have very high employment in germany at some point the numbers don't really tell you the picture because in germany you have high unemployment you've got social programs that are funded in surplus so it's a really a good comparison it just seemed like a waiter rile up using the media and what you think definitely is a moving target i think the netherlands is a good example of what you're talking about because you know in the netherlands they're low they have low. per capita or actually lot household wealth but they also own the homes more than the germans it's just that they have a huge mortgage debt in in the netherlands and that's actually going down so they're good example how it's a moving target you can expect in spain for instance spent in slovenia where the

two countries in the e.u. in the euro area that actually had the house prices were falling the most in two thousand and twelve so you know that household wealth is going down in spain all right let me let me cut in here for a second because you know the what we're talking about i think is very important and you can apply it over a couple of different situations and it's really also a question of what policies do you want going forward do you want austerity policies or do you want keynesian kind of money printing policies now the people down in the south with high wealth for household they are the beneficiaries of speculation in the house printing house business that that comes from all this money that's floating around in the system where isn't germany it's already practicing what you could call austerity in the trade off is between jobs versus speculation here we are in britain and the question is with the new central bank coming in the new had governor mark carney should they go down the austerity route

or should they go down the money printing route it seems like the question is do you want jobs and wages for the population or do you want house speculators do you want market speculators do you want bond speculators but you can't have both you have to pick what what's more important to jobs or speculation where you think of my analysis said let me see two things the first thing is going back to the whole concept of there being differences in those differences not actually be meaningful think about in terms of complication you know a lot of people have been talking about that necessarily because there is a lot of wealth to be out in spain and italy you know if. you're talking about austerity obviously at some point in time the government's going to think to themselves really we want to get at that well that's money that we're not we're not having access to there's no reason we're still bankrupt when that was sitting there i think cyprus when you saw the complication of the attempted confiscation of

insured deposits that's telling you where things are headed in the european union now with regard to the paradigm of money printing or austerity really it's going to the related stool it's not just about the money it's about the central bank monetary policy it's also about fiscal policy and it's also about you know structural reform so you don't necessarily have to have all three you can mix and match however you want to be it doesn't have to be that you print money if you if you have some sort of fiscal program and you're making structural reform and the same goes in the reverse but i think that the paradigm now is that we need to print money and come in countries that can print money because you know they're the same level for their central bank in their national government they're going to do that so mark aren't going to come in and you know that there's going to be money printing harrison you are fluent in german and fact you're a former u.s.

diplomat to germany i know you read the german newspapers sell talk a little bit about what they're saying in german the german people about what's happening in cyprus what's your insight there i was in germany for the last two weeks just before this i had family in germany and i was talking to family members thought you know i read the german press accent or i think the general thinking here is this is that look you know. it's not like everything's easy for us we were called the sick man of europe ten years ago we had these hearts reforms we had a lot of difficulty you know we had our east west property bubble and we gain over that but you know we've made the disappearance the. insurance to crack down and and if you know that other countries are run into trouble as well they have to get billed out and we expect the exact same thing to happen for them so you know if we're going to get some money then we expect there to be so much some pain

obviously some sacrifice ok so so so westerman e r germany is looking at the euro as a repeat of assimilating east germany into their economy and this point is not lost on everyone else in europe who believes that germany feels it's their duty now to assimilate the rest of europe and there's a lot of antagonism now like in germany you know get out of our face we don't want us simulating us into your economy and germany is saying well other that if you don't then we're going to turn off the spigots at the e.c.b. and they try to and you're going to die from fina terry starvation isn't there some antagonism there. there is of nationalism some antagonism and you know there was east west. and titan isms you know there were the aussies and the bessie's and there are sorts of jokes accent and they still are to a certain degree even twenty years later so there's always going to be entirely missed me you have there but i really do think that the germans in general they really are they want to be good europeans they want your to be cohesive and they

want to be a part of that but the problem of courses is that number one they have a certain way of looking at things and they basically think that the rest of europe should do it the way that they've done this or do it their way and then the second problem basically is that you know the germans of today are not the germans of before if you think about people of color and schmidt's and these other german politicians from the seventy's in the eighty's they had their legacy in terms of the war there was the war guilt so this big today that your politicians who are running germany they have nothing to do with the korean war germany or nazi germany etc that that sort of thinking is not their thinking now is look this is sixty years later seventy years later this is a new era this is a new europe and there's no reason for us to feel guilt whatsoever you know we're

the largest country engine in the e.u. and therefore we have a responsibility to step up to the plate before they were saying no we don't have a responsibility to put you know we are we're guilty we need to play a muted role but now there's a stronger germany when germany is stepping up to the plate and looking to take a leadership role that definitely changes the dynamics well i sounds like you're in favor of the first call discipline that we saw was west germany assimilative east germany and but at the same time just a few moments ago when we were talking about washington d.c. and other economies it sound like you are in favor of money frank thank. you. i do have good does it because what's good for the goose is good for the gander or what's going on here as i was saying you know there are three different things this austerity there is you know there's a fiscal side the monetary side and the fiscal reforms my belief in terms of the fiscal side is basically that it especially if you have

a if you if you if currency that's not convertible which is not really the case that you have in europe but if you do really you shouldn't have policies there's really no reason to target the deficit the deficit is the outcome really what you should be targeting is is growth and you should be looking to to smooth out over this cycle to have some sort of a policy that allows you to have maximum plummet at all times and the deficit will be lower as a result of that if you have the appropriate tax policy i let me let me jump in for a second because i understand you're saying that you've got three avenues to pursue and different countries would require different prescriptions unfortunately in these countries you have different lobbying groups and different ideologies off impeding to get their ideology and their policies through they all think they have the best policy the reason i bring this up is because here in the u.k. margaret thatcher has died margaret thatcher there's a big margaret that there's

a funeral there's a huge outpouring of emotion about margaret thatcher back in the seventy's when she assumed power she too had all these competing voices telling her what to do she took a survey very strong position for better or worse she took action so my question to you as a long term observer of markets and countries and politics what's here and we only have thirty seconds left unfortunately but it might be interesting the factor like to see how did it has a stack up in retrospect your thoughts. oh you mean that you're i think you know i have mixed views about her and i think that if you look at the u.k. thirty years ago basically it was like a you know completely much more socialist country everything was nationalized i think it was a positive thing that you don't you privatized these parts of the country but at the same time you know you look at the financialization of the u.k. the enormous banking sector as a percentage of g.d.p.

that's a huge legacy of margaret thatcher and i think that's a very negative legacy right ok well we're at a time so. we have to pick up on that at a future date and harrison thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you much all right that's all the time we have for this edition of the kaiser report i want to thank my co-host the gorgeous and talented stacy herbert i also want to thank my guest at harrison if you'd like to say i mean email please do so i can as reported r t t v dot are you are you ready for the truth until next time ask either saying by a. clear image of iraq after. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the road. from north to south.

the route of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. like the taxi on r.t.e. . led mission is. going to take three. four judges three. three. three. three. videos for your media project a free media. tom. cole .

looking pretty. good here if your. perspective. visiting the general hospital and followed her is like living it was a nightmare. children with two heads tumors malformations missing limbs and macao been unbearable literally they say every family here is sheltering or hiding a deformed monstrous child. all

of them. get away and the grandmother you know my daughter cries all day long it but she hopes to see her daughter get better. i deeply affected i leave the city with its newborn monsters. we head for baghdad on the banks of the tigris. baghdad can be translated as the garden of peace. but it's a better fragile peace the patrols are iraqi wearing uniforms supplied by the us the army is divided by political religious and tribal conflicts everyone fights for

his own camp. the president is kurd the prime minister shia and the parliament is run by sunnis. in paradise square opposite the royal mosque stands a concrete pedestal. here once through the absolute symbol of power a statue of saddam hussein. on april ninth two thousand and three. into the ground of the united states believed to have won the will. nine years have passed the square is empty and the city appears to be in a state of siege. oh is that our passenger alyea theater

director back from exile in paris waited for a long time to see his enemy fall and return to his native city. where i was thrown in prison and when i got out i was given five days to leave baghdad and iraq jamie to. put folly the combat continues. i do through theater that he hopes to win it is methodist to re-invest the public with a sense of resistance and a taste for life. i know that out. today i see a country filled with weapons the overriding color in the city is khaki the color of soldiers. i see young people with no future men and women deprived of any feeling of citizenship the grown people have forgotten their rights and their duties. as if they were lost but i completely lost. not. more time to be doing your shoulder but more than that.

in baghdad no one knows who the enemy is anymore sunni's she is islamists christians each with their armies and militia each fighting the other. nine out of us i know some short guys who joined al qaeda just to get some money. so out of the hard. of several al qaeda gives them money whereas the government abandons them by the thumping of laws. but they're paid to kill here on their floor so close. the show but so they've ruined a few. edges the lives and their families find out. why for nothing goes.

on october thirty first twenty ten a terrorist group claiming all kind of affiliations occupied the catholic cathedral in baghdad. five suicide bombers activated their explosive belts fifty eight people were killed. in nine years of occupation of civil and religious wars and attacks of caused more than one hundred ten thousand victims a century civilian. syriac khaldiyeh an orthodox and armenian churches have become choice targets. al qaeda assassins and sunni and shia fanatics agree on nothing except on a victim the christians they accuse of being western crusaders. baghdad is

a raising its a loss tree as christian past. checkpoints abound every hundred meters crossing baghdad is a permanent obstacle course. but i think iraq is a battlefield for a ray of foreign forces. iran supports the shia brothers while saudi arabia age there's the sunnis. and as for the bunker i live in al i damn near a sunny district i finished it in two thousand and six i was all for. it was addicted to. at least fifty rockets falling on us every day it never stopped. you know me the streets were filled with corpses and there was fighting everywhere to show out i'm out of you know that i deserve a new the battles raged for seventy two hours in. the army the militia everyone was fighting. i battled and bodies became préfet to be devoured by stray

dogs that my little girl saw a dog eating the dead which i had never seen before in my life packet which has left me from just. living in baghdad ming surviving attacks but it's also an every day battle. in the capital of the world's third biggest oil producer the electricity system works for just a few hours a day. the best business in town is selling generators. for khaled my driver a visit to the barber after ten days on the road should be a moment to relax a moment of peace but nothing is that simple. yes quite simply hell here sheer hell.

it's not a normal life like other people have around the world. may god act to improve things what do you say to the good of will know for sure god is good that. having. been. the school teacher she's invited us to dinner. alan twenty years of war how have you got through it as a woman. i grew up in email on your head and how first the war with iran then the embargo has added to american intervention i see. a little but the first in one thousand nine hundred and the second in two thousand and three. for the iran

war my brother was arrested and there was just my dad to take care of the family all those girls had no work my father ran a small business. we barely grown up when the embargo strangle the whole country can you imagine no fruit or vegetables meat we couldn't afford and fish even more so it's only today that i can buy but we lived in safety the women could move about without any problem we had peace but in poverty i think that there's anything that lets you down i want. to. come up with a sort of one of my wife is different but as we have guests i can drink we may be poor but we still have a sense of hospitality. abdu and zara a sunni and a shia for the rest couple today war and religion have also imposed by hundreds on love. as the lights go out once again the

neighborhoods back up generators take over i have your message that you. not that we're unique ok i'm shia my husband a sunni must have had now after the war the two religions can't intermarriage anymore and that's and it wasn't the case before what was important was that people loved each other and what's the distinction between shia and sunni city it's shameful treating people this way in iraq with all muslims mostly. so it's a muslim man asks for the hand of a muslim woman according to islamic tradition by faith and that's all but how it was at the end of the war that this division appeared shia sunni. but i guess now we've come to threats. how does a sunny day or an area it is still missing as we look at what the alternative is to

get divorced or donna you know if you don't agree to get divorced you risk death thinking you know and yet here in our neighborhood they shot a woman in front of her husband and children for the unique reason she was shia and he was sunni said that she. this morning i'm not just leaving baghdad i'm fleeing baghdad. but the city gates the soldier who checks our passports tells us yet another attack a scar to the capital. another checkpoint on the road to babylon we present our passports and passes and i enter a shia country apprehensive. the sky is like twilight i feel like i'm wandering in the kingdom of the dead it's raining sand.

prayers of punctuated each day on the road i sleep while he converses with his god . amidst the wind blown sand appears the mythical city of babylon. in his delusions of grandeur saddam hussein imagine himself to be its king the heir to throw the president of the iraqi republic saddam hussein in one nine hundred eighty eight inaugurated the restored city of babylon first built by nebuchadnezzar between six o four and five sixty two b.c. . at the height of his power like the ancient kings before him. palace in the heart of the legendary city

. his tower of babel crashed down around him and the dust of pride and ambition. his memory has been left to the ravages of time and the insults of his survivors.

let me i want to let me ask you a question from. here on this network is where we're having a debate we have our knives out. but the issue is this right to space thing there again here it is the way we're being i'd like to talk about the surveillance.

at the end of the road lies the mecca vatican and medina of the shia world. but something of god than other al qaeda is the real enemy of iraq and even of all the arab regions i don't believe several terrorist organizations have been exported by neighboring countries i don't know but they are responsible for so many victims since baghdad fell. and i would stress that most of the attacks have targeted the shia community to walk us through one of the shia. pilgrims are well protected here all the offices and soldiers a shia. several million faithful including many from iran come every year to visit

the mosques in karbala a boon for the holy city. religion is a river of gold as the saying goes. we know what it's obvious that when a country's native sons defend it things go better than when they're always better than an occupier. and invader always has trouble understanding the country they occupy and as the air proverb says no one knows the roads of mecca better than its own inhabitants and image that shout i have it if i have it. is this. the main prayer. takes place in hussein most. the interim sermons a political resonance and a broadcast throughout iraq in the shia world and. the shias today are imposing their numbers and their power.

in the prayers always end with cries to the glory of the prophet hussein the son of ali allegedly designated by mohammed to be his only successor you never heard them . but many on under saddam a million years were detained and many of them were assassinated and thrown into mass graves and center i myself your servant spent twelve years in iraqi jails my family only received news of me one or two years after i was released. i was even afraid of my own brother i thought he was an officer who come to interrogate me yes we suffered and the prisons were filled with shias for me when you be.

leaving kabbalah is like crossing a graveyard. everywhere all portraits of she amount has fallen for the glory of the prophet hussain mohammed there. that. must have. been. on the baghdad best run highway in the middle of the desert a fateful taxi for. finally gives up the ghost. i feel suddenly vulnerable alone in the wilderness.

as if by magic a man appears from the sams to help us out perhaps this is the renowned desert hospitality. we had for a camp for the man who maintained the highway once they were all soldiers and saddam's army. when the americans came many deserted. and. without knowing who we are to make room for us to share that. with out of massive data iraqi army was hunger thirst and fatigue. remember your family was taken hostage or she deserves it. you horrible in the days when they called people who ran away they were simply hang on. one of you and i spent seven years in the army and it was very tough. insana most days

a soldier was paid two thousand dinos less than the bank he was carrying was worth we can definitely say we were really miserable. not rock the boat. the highway splits the desert and on each side of the road to bask in the vast oil fields of rumaylah. more than half of iraqi production is pumped from this burning desert a treasure chest within the sand. shale b.p. exxon mobil and the chinese soon a pack of already got their hands on the bulk of it. at last we reached bastrop where the euphrates and the tigris meet. travel is once

called the city the venice of the south. who comes to kill us and destroy our country and good it before we said it the americans but the americans have gone and now my general so who else is continuing the job of a that nobody knows of there's no work and the situation is unlivable i say yes it was better before. conversely if we talk about security and civic respect we can say it was a hundred percent better under saddam. today there's no respect for the citizens and as if we were no longer men that's the truth that's honestly what i feel for ya . we are less and less respected before an iraqi could walk by this head held high anywhere in the world and especially at home as long as the state was not affected or undermined things have changed a lot i can tell you that the situation was much better before.

the venice of the self was awash with detritus of all kinds half of the inhabitants are unemployed it's a humanitarian and social disaster area. here we have absolutely nothing. where we going but at that event in this oil rich country we can't find work there this is how we live the children of this country why is it fair does god accept this master is in the middle of all the country's oil wealth it's like the mother of oil but he doesn't seem to gain from it the inhabitants are poor and the streets are filled with the unemployed and it. was once one of the richest cities in iraq today it seems to have been forgotten by

both god and mankind because of oil is cruel indeed. and yet in the heart of the shantytowns is always given freely. and sweet offering . by our government isn't he in mind that if the government doesn't take care of the poor and is only there to save itself until it sound pockets i do expect things to change what. i have no minister has taken the trouble to come and see us to ask how we survive or ask us if we. need and i think we have nobody to talk to. and so since the americans left the poor in the powerless join the militia and the

terrorist groups who at least provide money and protection. everywhere in the city are portraits of the she might outside his radical troops feed on poverty. the road ends at our file on the banks of the persian gulf the end of our journey. from this is the al back of oil terminal rising from the water far from terrorist attacks and on a constant military surveillance where iraq's fortune oil flows in and out. the country's fortune and perhaps misfortune two. wars here have always been closed in the same color black.

and foul was at the mouth of the shuttle our best during where the tigris joins the euphrates forming the border with iran. on the iranian bank a gigantic portrait of the m.m. how many is there to talk to us a reminder that americans have gone leaving pandora's box wide open. been especially on me personally i never thought collaborated with the americans. well john what chile i work i am and always have been a taxi driving us here. i still can't cross the country north to south from south dakota and follow all taxi i go wherever i can find work i have that i don't hesitate god be praised all i want to still live my.

twenty days on the road perhaps one hundred checkpoints. with my friend khaled we've crossed a country which is officially no longer at war but where peace is not being restored a country divided by sectarian shia sunni and kurd communities a country where tara is a daily issue. from zoho abil so there manya kook muscle to create. baghdad babilonia cabala far as i'll file we've travelled

a road where danger is ever present. khaled was under the protection of these gaunt and me maps of providence.

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